Re: [Boost-users] boost 1.63 fails to build with zlib and bzip2 in different directories

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost 1.63 fails to build with zlib and bzip2 in different directories
From: Andrea Bocci (andrea.bocci_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-05 12:53:47

On 5 January 2017 at 18:35, Nathan Ernst <nathan.ernst_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Andrea,
>
> I had issues many years ago getting boost to build on windows with zlib &
> bzip support. I wrote up the problems I had an the solution I found at the
> time at stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4589935/boost-
> iostreams-with-bzip2-built-from-source-on-windows). I'm not sure if this
> is still relevant, as a former coworker told me that my instructions no
> longer worked on newer versions, but I was given no detail, but maybe it
> could give you a starting point on how to get it to work.
>
> Regards,
> Nate
>

Hi Nate,
thanks for the link. I had a look at you post, but unfortunately my
problems appear much earlier - boost (or rather, the iostreams library)
never compiles, as it does not manage to put together a valida
configuration.

Ciao,
.Andrea